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Dayanita Singh Biography ALMA ZEVI DAYANITA SINGH Born in 1961 in New Delhi, India. She lives and works in New Delhi, India. Education 1988 Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, International Center of Photography, New York City, USA 1986 Visual Communication, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India Selected Solo Exhibitions 2019 Dayanita Singh and Box 507 Pop Up, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK 2018 Pop-Up Book Shop, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York City, USA 2017 Museum Bhavan, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2016 Suitcase Museum, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India Museum of Shedding, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK Museum of Machines: Photographs, Projections, Volumes, MAST, Bologna, Italy Museum of Chance – Book Object, Hawa Mahal, Jaipur, India 2015 Conversation Chambers Museum Bhavan, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi, India Book Works, Goethe-Institut. New Delhi, India Museum of Chance – A book story, MMB, Delhi, India 2014 Museum of Chance – A book story, MMB, Mumbai, India Go Away Closer, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany City Dwellers: Contemporary Art From India, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, USA 2013 Go Away Closer, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK 2012 File Museum, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK Dayanita Singh / The Adventures of a Photographer, Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Umea, Sweden Monuments of Knowledge, Photographs by Dayanita Singh, Kings College London, London, UK House of Love, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India 2011 Adventures of a Photographer, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan House of Love, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Dayanita Singh, Museum of Art, Bogota, Colombia 2010 Dayanita Singh, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dayanita Singh, Mapfre Foundation, Madrid, Spain Dream Villa, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India 2009 Blue Book, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India Blue Book, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India 2008 Let You Go, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany Dream Villa, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK Sent a Letter, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi, India Sent a Letter, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India Ladies of Calcutta, Bose Pacia Gallery, Calcutta, India 2007 Go Away Closer, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India Beds and Chairs, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India Go Away Closer, Kriti Gallery, Benares, India Go Away Closer, Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival, Arles, France 2006 Go Away Closer, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India Beds and Chairs, Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy 2005 Chairs, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy Chairs, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK Chairs, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA 2004 Privacy, Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival, Arles, France San Marco 3357, Salizzada San Samuele, 30124 Venice, Italy T: +39 041 5209197 | [email protected] |www.almazevi.com ALMA ZEVI 2003 Privacy, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany Myself Mona Ahmed, Museum für Indische Kunst, Berlin, Germany Dayanita Singh: Image/Text (Photographs 1989–2002), Department of Art and Aesthetics Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 2002 I am as I am, Myself Mona Ahmed , Scalo Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland and New York City, USA Parsees at Home, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India Bombay to Goa, Kalaghoda Festival, Mumbai, India Bombay to Goa, Art House India, Goa, India 2001 I am as I am, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK Empty Spaces, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK 2000 Dayanita Singh, Stockholm, Sweden Dayanita Singh, Brussels, Belgium Demello Vado, Saligao Institute, Goa, India 1999 Venice Photo Biennale, Venice, Italy Family Portraits, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy 1998 Another India, Crealdé School of Art Orlando, Orlando, USA Family Portraits Nature Morte, New Delhi, India 1997 Images from the 90’s, Scalo, Zurich, Switzerland Selected Group Exhibitions 2021 The Portrait in Focus, ALMA ZEVI, Venice, Italy 2020 Off the Wall, SFMoMA, San Francisco, USA Faster Than Ever, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK Some Mysterious Process: Fifty years of collecting international art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland Who is gazing? Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Paris, France 2019 Surrounds: 11 Installations, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA In the Company of Artists: 25 Years of Artists-in-Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA Body Building, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE Unfolding: Fabric of Our Life, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT), Hong Kong, China Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada Chennai Photo Biennale, Chennai, India 2018 Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Opaque Emblems, Nature Morte, New Dehli, India After Babel: Part 2 of The Unwritten Library trilogy, Annex M, Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Greece 25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Fearless: Contemporary South Asian Art, Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 57th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA Divine Bodies, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins, Barbican Centre, London, UK 2017 The Electric Comma, VAC Foundation, Venice, Italy You’ve got 1243 unread messages. Last generations before internet. Their lives., Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia Everything we do is music, Drawing Room, London, UK Space & Photography, The Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria The Photographic I – Other Pictures, SMAK, Gent, Belgio A Good Neighbour, 15th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Elmgreen & Dragset, Istanbul, Turkey Collection Display: Go Away Closer, Tate Modern, London, UK Summer Breeze: An Ensemble of Gallery Artists, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK 10 years old, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Foro Boario, Modena, Italy 2016 An Imagined Museum: Works from the Centre Pompidou, the Tate, and MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany The Humble Vessel, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK Suitcase Museum and Kitchen Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia for the 20th Biennale of Sydney, Australia Museum of Chance – Book Object, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh San Marco 3357, Salizzada San Samuele, 30124 Venice, Italy T: +39 041 5209197 | [email protected] |www.almazevi.com ALMA ZEVI 2015 Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, Manheim, Germany (Fold. Prologue (The share of the fire)), Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugual Délégation en France, Paris, France 2014 Silver, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK Chance, Kochi Biennale, Kochi, India Sensorium Arts Festival, Goa, India 2013 German Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 2012 Street, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK Indian Highway, Ullens Center, Beijing, China The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia The Unseen, The Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China Magic Moments, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA Pink Caviar and Two Days, Art Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 2011 Indian Highway, MAXXI, Rome, Italy ILLUMInations, Arsenale, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Paris - Delhi – Bombay…India through the eyes of Indian and French Artists, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival: Dynamic Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada Face contact, PhotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain Indian Highway, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France 2010 Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK travelled to Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland 2009 Au Fèminin, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris, France Vases, Arden and Anstruther, UK Indian Highway, Astrup Museum, Oslo, Norway 2008 Indian Highway Serpentine Gallery, London, UK The Home and the World, Hermes Store, New York City, Usa; Paris, France and Berlin, Germany The photograph, painted posed and of the moment, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, UK Manifesta 7: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Bolzen, Italy The 7th Gwangju Biennale: A Year in exhibitions, Gwangju, South Korea 2007 Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York City, USA Les Rencontres D’Arles Festival, Arles, France Private/Corporate , Sammlung Daimler Chrysler, Berlin, Germany Horn Please, Kunst museum, Berne, Switzerland 2006 Summer Exhibition, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK Das Achte Feld - Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der bildenden Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Cities in Transition, New York City, Boston Hartford, USA 2005 Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Queens Museum of Art and the Asia Society, New York City, USA; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India; National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India 2005 Presence, Sepia International, New York City, USA 2004 Summer Show, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK Ten Commandments, Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany 2003 Architecture of Homelessness, Pinakotek der Moderne, Munich, Germany The Family, Windsor Gallery, Dania, USA 2002 Red Light, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney,
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